Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses.

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

I learned that if I ever claim sexual harassment, I will be confronted with every bozo I once dated, every women I once impressedas snotty and superior, and together they will provide a convenient excuse to disbelieve me.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

I made a mistake using a private e- mail.And if I had to do it over again, I would, obviously, do it differently. But I'm not going to make any excuses. It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

I'm going to live until I die, and everything in between is just another excuse to eat peanut butter.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.